The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
2 PM ET The Beginner’s Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
3 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Kelly Hughes
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we’ll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Sensemaking Through Play
Hosted by Rebecca Hathaway
Explore how games and play help us learn, collaborate, see past our assumptions, and find the energy to solve messy problems (and maybe play a game or two).
3 PM ET Reps & Rituals (Workshop)
Taught by Matt Arnold
Turn insight into lasting practice by learning EOF (Externalize, Organize, Focus) and team wayfinding techniques, then design one small ritual your team can actually start.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Other Humans
Hosted by Erin Rodat-Savla & Karen Brothers
A brave group focused on understanding and improving teamwork dynamics, navigating conflicts, and fostering productive relationships without burnout.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Money
Hosted by Tarryn Lambert & Sarah Rice
An open, nuanced discussion aimed at demystifying money, fostering connections, and promoting financial empowerment through shared experiences and insights.
What’s going on?
Week of October 5, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week we gathered to make sense of the lines we draw: between teams, between parts and wholes, between what we know and what we assume, between where we are and where we want to be, and between systems we build and systems we can keep up. Making Sense of Content + Design kicked off the week with how to negotiate boundaries when several teams publish overlapping content about the same product. Mindfulness & Modeling asked members to map how they feel right now as a whole person, a way into the paradox of part versus whole. Knowledge Management & Governance Support asked how much of what we treat as knowledge is really just an accepted assumption, and how often we challenge it. Career Transitions took on "the gap": how we make sense of the distance between where we are and where we want to be, and how we bridge it on purpose. Governance is the Way closed the week by putting members in the hot seat on two scenarios: push to govern or let it ride, and break the norm or hold it.
Themes from last week:
- Every boundary is an agreement, and agreements need relationships to hold
- There is no right way, only permission to start
- Knowledge left alone hardens into assumption
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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